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Author | : James M. Deem |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618354023 |
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Describes the discovery of bog bodies in northern Europe and the evidence which their remains reveal about themselves and the civilizations in which they lived.
Author | : Karin Sanders |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226734048 |
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Over the past few centuries, northern Europe’s bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archeological artifacts and human beings. They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog excavates anew the question of what it means to be human.
Author | : P.V. Glob |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2004-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781590170908 |
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One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility. Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age. Includes 76 black-and-white photographs.
Author | : Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0500772983 |
Download Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniques Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs—even their brains—survive. Most of these ancient swamp victims have been discovered in regions with large areas of raised bog: Ireland, northwest England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. They were almost certainly murder victims and, as such, their bodies and their burial places can be treated as crime scenes. The cases are cold, but this book explores the extraordinary information they reveal about our prehistoric past. Bog Bodies Uncovered updates Professor P. V. Glob’s seminal publication The Bog People, published in 1969, in the light of vastly improved scientific techniques and newly found bodies. Approached in a radically different style akin to a criminal investigation, here the bog victims appear, uncannily well-preserved, in full-page images that let the reader get up close and personal with the ancient past.
Author | : Melanie Giles |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526150174 |
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.
Author | : Natalie Jane Prior |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin Academic |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781864482430 |
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An exploration of preserved human remains tells the stories of druid sacrifices found in the bogs of Britain, mummies from Greenland and Egypt, a five thousand-year-old man frozen by the glaciers of the Italian Alps, and the mysterious Knight of St. Bees.
Author | : R. C. Turner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : |
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Archaeology.
Author | : Siobhan Dowd |
Publisher | : David Fickling Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2008-09-09 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375891544 |
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DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what—a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
Author | : Erin Hart |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2003-04-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 074325452X |
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The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detail. When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery—the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair—Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. Because the bog’s watery, acidic environment prevents decay, it’s difficult to tell how long the red-haired girl has been buried—two years, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the wife of a local landowner, went for a walk with her young son and vanished without a trace. Could they, too, be hidden in the bog’s treacherous depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did Hugh Osborne murder his family, as some villagers suspect? Bracklyn House, Osborne’s stately home, holds many secrets, and Nora and Cormac's inquiries threaten to expose them all.
Author | : James M. Deem |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618800452 |
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The author of "Bodies from the Ash" and "Bodies from the Bog" takes readers on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past. Full color.